Orna Braun-Lewensohn is a Full Professor at the ‘‘Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management’’ Program and serves as Dean of the Kreitman School for Advanced Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She received her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 2007. Her primary research interests include mental health outcomes and coping during or following stressful events in different ethnic groups. During her career, she was involved in different projects that included the evaluation and implementation of various projects among different ethnic and cultural groups. She has published more than 70 papers and three books and won approximately $500,000 in research grants,  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9749-2763 keywords: stress; coping; salutogenesis; community resilience; ethnic minority groups.